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Showing that there are no bounds to lawsuit insanity, a Queens resident is suing Apple for marking down the price of the iPhone - and she wants $1 million. Why? Because now she can't sell them for a profit on eBay! Damn you, Steve Jobs, and your possibly faltering precious product!
Dongmei Li claims that Apple "violated price discrimination laws" when the prices of the 8GB iPhone were slashed from $599 to $399 and the sale of the $499 4GB was stopped. The "less favorable" terms of a 4GB purchase, rather than an 8GB purchase, are mentioned in the suit - Li had purchased two 4GB models with the intention of selling them on eBay. Ouch, but technology will bite you in the butt every time.
Li's lawyer Jean Wang explained, "Since they're selling the 8-gigabite phone for $399, there's really no market for her." So, wait, is she in the cult or not? AT&T is also named in the lawsuit.
Photograph of people demo-ing the iPhone on launch day by Neil Epstein
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Apple Dweebs.
that bitch is iNsane. the court should throw it out and then sue her for wasting the legal system's time and money on it.
Not even commenting on her legal case but what idiot tries to sell iPhones on eBay? From Day 1 there was no shortage of the phones. eBay is only good if you can get a scarcity premium - especially if you're paying retail rather than wholesale. This nut should have returned the phones a long time ago.
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what are her grounds? I don't understand.
Should of stuck with phone cards and handbags.
phone cards? handbags? I don't understand the context of this. it's like saying black people eat cottage cheese.
iS Dongmei Li an authorized reseller?
Also, that's how technology works. I just bought a power book and the price went down a week later. am i suing? um no. why? that's how it works—it's always been this way.
deal with it.
edEx, the Powerbook was discontinued almost two years ago.
This woman should hang out with the Jets fan suing Belichick and the Patriots for $184 million.
who waits 3 months to resell an item they bought with the intention to resell?
she's suing hoping for a settlement of a few thousand dollars.
How power book could have a price drop when it hasn't been part of Apple's line-up for well over a year is beyond me, ed.
Not only do we eat cottage cheese,our women produces it.
LOL!
Greedy bitch got bit in the butt. She deserves it for not being "technology savvy".
Supply and demand everyone. High School Economics.
why does this site bring out the worst in people?
thankfully Lead is Cheap.
molon labe.
god i loathe lawyers.
Crazy bitch... they should lock her and her crazy lawyer up.
Because she wasn't expecting the price cut?
#18, the point is still why would you try to sell something on eBay that isn't in high demand at a retail store? It makes some sense if you buy a Christmas toy that is in high demand because parents must have the toy by a certain date. and eBay sellers can quickly snap up all of the Elmos and Wiis in a particular area. But there is no rush on the iPhone. In fact, savvy people know to never buy a first generation product. Wait for the other chumps to find the bugs.
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That's some bad lawyering if that guy somehow convinced her that she has a claim that's realistically worth anything close to that much.
sorry paul, i meant macBook. regardless, price drops are inevitable with electronics.
They need to somehow punish the lawyer for even considering taking a case like this. Price Discrimination Laws doesn't have to do with individual buys devices from a store (even with an intent to resell, it's still not a business), it deals with businesses selling to other businesses, and making sure that one store doesn't get a better deal than another on a discriminatory basis.
she should be killed. Anyone that petty has no place in society.
Fuck, Jesus... are we DONE with the iPhone yet? Only mouth-breathing fashionistas and forgettable thugs use this device.
Real business people use Treos, Blackberries, or HTC devices.
Apple sucks. Fuck this shit. I'm not an OS fag, but I'm tired of reading about this shit.
Fuck. This. Shit.